Relentless Love

• When the Lord first spoke to Hosea, he said this to him: Go and marry a woman of promiscuity,  and have children of promiscuity, for the land is committing blatant acts of promiscuity by abandoning the Lord. Hosea 1:2 CSB

• And I will punish her for the days of the Baals,  to which she burned incense.  She put on her rings and her jewelry and followed her lovers, but she forgot me.  This is the Lord’s declaration. Hosea 2:13 CSB

• Then the Lord said to me, “Go again; show love to a woman who is loved by another man and is an adulteress, just as the Lord loves the Israelites though they turn to other gods and love raisin cakes.” 

  So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and nine bushels of barley. Hosea 3:1-2 CSB

• But God proves  his own love for us  in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:8 CSB

• Therefore, I am going to persuade her, lead her to the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her. 

  There I will give her vineyards back to her and make the Valley of Achor into a gateway of hope. There she will respond as she did in the days of her youth,  as in the day she came out of the land of Egypt. Hosea 2:14-15 CSB

• How can I give you up, Ephraim?  How can I surrender you, Israel? How can I make you like Admah?  How can I treat you like Zeboiim?  I have had a change of heart; my compassion is stirred! Hosea 11:8 CSB

• For you know that you were redeemed from your empty way of life  inherited from your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of an unblemished and spotless lamb. 1 Peter 1:18-19 CSB